Re: preview environment doesn't render in the document in 2.4.0?

2024-06-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
I’ve found over the years that it pays to install the complete TeX package on any platform I’m working on. Tons of stuff gets installed that I won’t ever need, but it guarantees that everything I will need is there. And disk space is cheap and plentiful these days. :-) -chris > On Jun 21, 2024

Re: Please help me

2024-06-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jun 11, 2024, at 3:55 PM, Anders Ekberg via lyx-users > wrote: > >> 11 juni 2024 kl. 15:51 skrev Christopher Menzel : >> >>> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH >>> LyX 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac compu

Re: Please help me

2024-06-11 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have spent hours trying to figure out how one might be able to run BOTH LyX > 2.4 and LyX 2.3.8 on the same Mac computer with a Silicon chip and Mac OS > 14.5. No luck finding any useful information about this issue. > Is this possible? It’s not clear what you are asking. There should be no

Re: Headline is massively indented

2024-06-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have selected my font in the settings. I don't know how else to do it. A > package called texlive-full does not exist on my MikTex console. I don't know > how to install this package without using manual installation. Maybe with > \usepackage? That doesn't work. Ah, I didn’t realize you wer

Re: LyX 2.4 & MikTeX problem

2024-06-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jun 2, 2024, at 9:12 AM, markhsalmon wrote: > >> It's because of this sort of problem, which seems to arise constantly, that >> we stopped recommending MiKTeX. > > [S]o what do you recommend please? If not MikTek? TeX Live -cm -- lyx-users maili

Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jun 1, 2024, at 8:14 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky wrote: > I didn't know about ctlr-c e -- that works, thanks. > > cmd-i doesn't work for me. You should be able to set it in Preferences → Editing → Shortcuts. -chris > On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM Christopher Men

Re: LyX 2.4.0 Released!

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
I compiled 2.4.0 on Kali LInux 2024.2 with Qt6 (in a Parallels VM), no issues. Under MacOS I renamed RC4 just in case and then just copied 2.4.0 into the Applications folder as usual. Again, smooth sailing. I can’t begin to express my gratitude to the LyX developers for this fabulous program. I

Re: LyX 2.4 - Emph keyboard shortcut not working in OS X 14.4.1

2024-06-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jun 1, 2024, at 6:51 PM, Artemy Kolchinsky wrote: > > Thank you for releasing this amazing piece of software! > > However, I am running into an annoying bug in Lyx 2.4 on OS X 14.4.1 (I > cannot post to the bug tracker due to lack of privileges). The cmd+e command > no longer works to t

UPDATE: Pasted text from another document underlined in blue

2024-05-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: > > LyX folk: > > I am working up a Beamer presentation for a talk based on a paper I’m working > on (in LyX, of course). For some reason, whenever I try to paste text from > the paper into the Beamer document, the pasted text is underlined in bl

Re: Calibri Font

2024-04-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I am a newbie to Lyx and I am using the Manchester PhD template on the LyX > website. Before LyX all my figures and text used Calibri font, it would be > great if I could use this in my LyX rendering. I have been on the web and > found several options however the solutions are dependant on sev

Re: LyX and MacOS upgrade to M3?

2024-04-25 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Apr 24, 2024, at 4:10 PM, eprb--- via lyx-users wrote: > I am happily using LyX Version 2.3.6.2 (7 January 2021) with MacOS High > Sierra, version 10.13.6. > > I need to upgrade my Mac, and I want to ensure continuity with LyX. > > Please: What is the best LyX and new MacOS combination for

Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
> Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Christopher Menzel a écrit : >>> Maybe you need enchant (default on debian), it uses different spell >>> checkers. >>> >> Thank you for the suggestion. I finally got the bright idea of looking >> through the configure scrip

Re: Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
esired!). :-) -chris > Am 17.04.24 um 5:41 PM schrieb Christopher Menzel: >> I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am >> unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees >> no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. H

Not able to spellcheck in RC4 under Linux

2024-04-17 Thread Christopher Menzel
Gentle LyX folk: I have compiled LyX 2.4-RC4 under Kali Linux and it works great but I am unable to spellcheck. Tools → Spellchecker is greyed out and LyX sees no spellchecker engine under Preferences → Spellchecker. Hunspell and the English dictionary are of course installed. I found an old th

Re: LyX 2.4.0, Release Candidate 1

2024-01-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 15, 2024, at 2:40 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > The LyX team is happy (and relieved) to announce the publication of the first > 'release candidate' for the long awaited 2.4.0. Just compiled it under Linux and was very happy to see that y’all fixed the chonky (specifically, overly

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
Try the Palatino font with \usepackage{mathpazo}. That’s an attractive, classic TeX font combo. -chris > On Jan 13, 2024, at 9:50 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > >  > I have tried kpfonts. Surprisingly, it also has the same problem with > authormark misplaced! > > > > -- > lyx-users mailing lis

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 12, 2024, at 3:25 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 3:15 PM Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker > <mailto:ndbeck...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> I'm writing another pa

Re: Latex vs. non-latex fonts

2024-01-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 12, 2024, at 9:03 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I'm writing another paper for IEEE conference. I'm using lualatex to > produce pdf. > > In document/settings/fonts, I'm set to using all defaults. If I don't > check 'use non-TeX fonts', the output looks good. If I do check 'use > non-TeX font

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 6, 2023, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck >>> wrote: >>> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: >>>> Hello, >>

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? >> It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and >> ctl + or Up

Re: Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

2023-09-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 5 Sep 2023, at 5:01 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 9/5/23 16:45, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> LyX folk, >> >> I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to >> open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion scri

Can't open 2.4.0-beta5 doc in 2.4.0-beta3

2023-09-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk, I recently compiled Lyx 2.4.0-beta5 under Linux and find that I am unable to open the file in Lyx 2.4.0-beta3 under MacOS and the conversion script is failing to export to 2.3.x. By changing "\lyxformat 618” to "\lyxformat 616” I was able to load the document in 2.4.0-beta3 although I

Icon "padding"

2023-08-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: There is a significant difference in the "padding" around the icons in 2.4.0-beta3 compared to 2.3.7. The difference is particularly stark when comparing 2.3.7 under MacOS

Re: Shortcut to switch panes?

2023-07-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Jul 7, 2023, at 10:58 AM, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Fri, 7 Jul 2023 09:45:11 +0200 > schrieb Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com>>: > >>> On Jul 6, 2023, at 1:35 PM, Kornel Benko wrote: >>> Am Thu, 6 Jul 2023 12:

Shortcut to switch panes?

2023-07-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
Estimable LyX folk, The answer seems to be “no” but: is it possible to set up a keyboard shortcut that, when one has split a window into two panes (“views” in LyX-speak), will make the inactive pane active so that one can easily switch from one pane to the other? "Ctrl-X O" does this in emacs a

Re: Advanced text editing commands

2023-04-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Apr 30, 2023, at 1:20 PM, John Beattie wrote: > On 2023-04-27 12:41 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> Out of curiosity, do the emacs users on this list actually use emacs.bind? > > Yes. Linux Mint 20.1, also on Windows 10. Absolutely, under both MacOS Ventura and Kali Linux 2023.1 (both run

Alt/Option key question

2023-03-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
Gentle LyX folk: I use the Emacs UI for LyX, which means the Option key (or Alt key, for PC users) gets a good workout — e.g., Opt-D deletes word-forward, Opt-F moves the cursor forward by word, etc. (In the standard LyX UI, those keys bring up the File and Document menus, respectively, so I di

Re: Lyx 2.3.7 on Linux Mint

2023-02-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
> I have seen that a new version (2.3.7) has been released. > Trying to upgrade to this new version, I tried to install lyx PPA but I get > the error > "This PPA does not support jammy". > > My PC runs Linux Mint 21 Vanessa (which is the LTR based on Ubuntu 22.04). > > How can I upgrade Lyx on m

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
I stand corrected! I confess I never used it and — obviously! — never learned what “WINE” stood for. (And kudos for a very nice self-referential acronym!) -chris > On Jan 23, 2023, at 8:41 AM, Lorenzo Bertini > wrote: > > On 23/01/23 15:01, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Vir

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-23 Thread Christopher Menzel
r purchasing it. For such folks, the VM solution (even if temporary) seems to me to be a reasonable one. > Makes no sense to me, whatsoever. Hope it makes at least a bit of sense to you now. ;-) -chris > On 22/01/2023 20:21, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [...] >>> The al

Re: Problems with LyX on Mac computers

2023-01-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Jan 22, 2023, at 10:48 AM, mark salmon wrote: > Marcus in your reply to Ed Burmeister you said there are 2 installers for Lyx > 2.3.7- for macs- one for old and one for new versions of MacOS .I don't > think I saw this when installing 2.3.7 I just chose the one option I saw in > front of

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
3.7. You can’t insert a graphic via the file browser in either one. -cm > On 21/01/2023 23:02, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [...] > >> This definitely appears to be a Ventura thing. I can’t insert >> graphics on my 2021 MacBook Pro using either 2.3.6.2 or 2.3.7 but both

Re: Ventura graphics Mac

2023-01-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
Udi wrote: > I think this bug is already reported here > , it seems that you can enter the Unix > file path into the "File:" field manually. > > It's not a perfect solution, but it might solve your problem in the meantime. Can confirm. This definitely ap

Re: Update of Ubuntu PPA for version 2.3.7?

2023-01-16 Thread Christopher Menzel
Whoever is in charge of the Kali distro is on the ball. I got a 2.3.7 update the day after it went live. Since that’s a Debian-based system, I should think you‘d be able to install the package on Ubuntu. (?) -chris > On Jan 16, 2023, at 7:02 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at

Re: Testing

2022-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
> Il 12/12/22 20:47, Christopher Menzel ha scritto: >> On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >>> I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday. >>> Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays?

Re: Testing

2022-12-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 12, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I've not seen any posts on this list other than the two I sent last Friday. > Is there an issue with the list or has everyone gone away for the holidays? Or maybe has a pile of papers to grade. :-) -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.o

Re: About upgrading to MacOS 13

2022-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Daniel, I have used LyX 2.3.6.2 under Ventura and did find that it crashed regularly. Since the version on LyX.org is still only compiled for Intel, perhaps Rosetta is the problem. And just to note, in case it is helpful: if you are familiar with Linux and have, or don’t mind purchasing, a

Re: Rebinding ESC to \

2022-10-19 Thread Christopher Menzel
ote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:13:24AM -0500, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are >> on MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a >> convenient graphical interface. On W

Re: Rebinding ESC to \

2022-10-19 Thread Christopher Menzel
You don’t identify your OS. Pavel gives you the answer for Linux. If you are on MacOS, Karabiner-Elements can do that sort of remapping in a jiffy via a convenient graphical interface. On Windows it’s a bit more work. You can either edit the registry (instructions are easy to find), use the Micr

Compile fail

2022-09-01 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I’ve successfully compiled LyX from sources under Linux but my attempts to do so under MacOS for my M1 Macs (since I don’t want to use Rosetta 2). I installed QT5 using homebrew and I’m using what seem to me to be the right flags for the configure script, viz., % ./configure --enab

Re: Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented somewhere? And what determines the relevant number after “pdf”? Thanks!! -c > On 29 Aug 2022, at 4:44 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > On 8/29/22 17:28, Ch

Shortcut for cropped PDF?

2022-08-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
Howdy LyX folk, Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly anything short of a 27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF (cropped) to strip away unneeded marginal whitespace. Is there a way to set up a keyboard shortcut to update my cropped PDFs? Something that will trigger th

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel via lyx-users
> Le 18/02/2022 à 23:46, Christopher Menzel via lyx-users a écrit : >> On 18 Feb 2022, at 1:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users >> wrote: >>> I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute >>> for the Windows version. I can't t

Re: LyX for Mac

2022-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel via lyx-users
On 18 Feb 2022, at 1:46 , Tom Goldring via lyx-users wrote: > I have version 2.3.6.2 on my MacBook Pro. I consider it a poor substitute for > the Windows version. I can't turn off the blinking cursor (extremely > annoying!), I can't change the background color (white background gives me a > he

LyX on Apple Silicon (in a VM)

2021-12-20 Thread Christopher Menzel via lyx-users
LyX folk, I haven’t seen any reports about running LyX on Apple Silicon so I thought I’d post a datapoint. I compiled LyX (with QT 5) from the latest source under Kubuntu 20.04 for ARM in a Parallels VM running on a 14” MacBook Pro with a 10-core M1 Pro chip. The compile ran flawlessly (once I

Re: shortcut for going to edge of ERT frame?

2021-08-08 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 8 Aug 2021, at 1:36 PM, David Pesetsky wrote: > On Aug 8, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Chris Menzel > wrote: >> >> For me, Ctrl-a and Ctrl-e move the cursor in an ERT frame to the first and >> last characters of the frame, respectively. However, I'm not sure if this is >

Re: lyx-users Digest, Vol 67, Issue 2

2021-01-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
MacTeX is not itself an application. It is a package that installs the TeX binaries and configuration files, none of which will show up in your Applications directory. (They are mostly in /Library/TeX.) LyX should know where they are and call them (with no input from you) when you try to view or

Re: help with error message

2021-01-03 Thread Christopher Menzel
Dear Heba, Delete MiKTeX, install MacTeX-2020: https://www.tug.org/mactex/ > On Jan 3, 2021, at 3:59 PM, heba said wrote: > > Hi, I need to download Lyx, and as I know, I need MikTex first. I get the > following error message. I am MacBook Air high sierra. > > Process: MiKTeX C

Re: Missing lyxeditor.cmd?

2019-08-22 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 22 Aug 2019, at 10:39 AM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 8/22/19 10:48 AM, Chris Menzel wrote: >> Gentle LyX folk, >> >> I have installed LyX 2.3.3 on a Dell XPS laptop and, Lo, the installation's >> bin directory appears to be missing lyxeditor.cmd, which is of course >> crucial for inve

Re: TeX in LyX ?

2019-06-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
Why not simply enter it inline in math mode? > On Jun 13, 2019, at 2:35 PM, Carlos Knauer wrote: > > Hello. How do I enter a TeX command in LyX? I want to write lim_ {x-> 0} f > (x) in the middle of the text. Does the \ displaystyle enter before the > equation? That is: I write \ displaystyle

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
> BTW, LaTeX predates .PDFs. Well aware — I started writing in (a much earlier version of) LaTeX in Emacs at Stanford in the mid-1980s, while Knuth was still actively developing the TeX code. :-) The usual process back then was .tex → .dvi → .ps via the latex and dvips binaries. And when PDF ca

Re: LyX on iPad

2018-11-05 Thread Christopher Menzel
I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's raison d'etre. It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs. So you use LyX to create PDFs. Seems to me if you're

RE: Shortcuts for symbols in text

2018-07-21 Thread Christopher Menzel
See, I was wrong. :-) -chris From: Richard Kimberly Heck Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2018 5:47 PM To: Tank Panzer; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Shortcuts for symbols in text On 07/21/2018 09:56 AM, Tank Panzer wrote: > In LyX one can cunfigure the shortcuts and even add new ones under > pre

Re: Attaching References

2017-01-25 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Bill, What platform? Mac? Windows? Linux? Also, what sorts of messages are you getting? And, just to make sure, did you insert a pointer to your .bib file at the end of your document by selecting Insert → List/TOC → BibTeX bibliography? All you say is that you stuck the file somewhere but La

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.2.2 Released

2016-10-15 Thread Christopher Menzel
nd the whole LyX development team for this wonderful, incredibly useful piece of software. It is an absolute joy to use, and a marvel of collaborative, open source software design and engineering. -chris -- Christopher Menzel Professor of Philosophy Texas A&M University

Re: macOS Sierra

2016-09-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 20 Sep 2016, at 2:16 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Has anyone tried LyX on MacOS Sierra? Any issues? LyX (currently 2.2) with MacTeX 2015 is rock solid for me under Sierra, and has been since the early public betas. Will upgrade to MacTeX 2016 one of these days but don't expect any problem

Re: LyX and Sierra beta

2016-08-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 05:01:02PM -0400, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Hello LyX folk, >> >> Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra? > > We have not heard of anyone who ha

LyX and Sierra beta

2016-08-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hello LyX folk, Has anyone tried out LyX 2.2 on the public beta of OS X Sierra? -chris

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

2016-01-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
Ah, gotcha. I'm sure this could be done with ERT but doubt it is a feature baked into LyX. -chris > On 20 Jan 2016, at 12:04 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:00 PM, Christopher Menzel > wrote: >>> >>> Is there some automatic or semi-a

Re: Looking for an automatic way of shuffling the items of enumerate

2016-01-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:17 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All, > > Is there some automatic or semi-automatic way of shuffling the items > of an enumerate environment? If I'm understanding you, under OS X, Cmd- and Cmd- allow you move enumerated items up or down in an enumerated list. I reckon Ctrl-

RE: error creating pdf

2016-01-10 Thread Christopher Menzel
Sounds like a TeX installation problem. Have you installed MikTeX (Windows) or MacTeX (OS X)? -chris Original message From: Laura Schröder Date: 1/10/2016 2:57 AM (GMT-06:00) To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: error creating pdf Hello! I'm a very beginner in lyx. I started

Re: Lower case mathcal

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
On 24 Nov 2015, at 2:32 PM, Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 24/11/2015 19:58, Christopher Menzel a écrit : >> Dear LyX folk, >> >> Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower >> case calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF vi

Lower case mathcal

2015-11-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
Dear LyX folk, Quick question — what would it take to get display support for lower case calligraphic letters, which you can get in your rendered PDF via a package like BOONDOX-cal. Currently, typing lower case letters inside a \mathcal tag in math mode generates a seemingly random selection of

Re: El Capitan

2015-10-02 Thread Christopher Menzel
You can almost surely solve your El Capitan problems if you disable the new System Integrity Protection feature (a.k.a. rootless mode), which among other things prevents the creation of symlinks in /usr. Note that there are some good security reasons for SIP — in particular it makes it much hard

Re: El Capitain

2015-09-29 Thread Christopher Menzel
I've been running LyX unproblematically on my retina 5k iMac since the first public beta of El Capitan. I'm currently running El Cap GM on both my iMac and my rMBP and have had no issues. -chris On 28 Sep 2015, at 7:45 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > > Am 28.09.2015 um 22:20 schrieb Anders Host-Ma

Missing convert utility

2015-08-11 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: In the past, in the course of installing MacTeX and LyX on a Mac, the ImageMagick utilities — in particular, convert (which is essential for viewing inserted PDFs in LyX) — would also be installed. (I'm not sure which of the two, MacTeX or LyX, was responsible for this.) I am curren

Re: Can't preview under OS X beta

2015-07-10 Thread Christopher Menzel
Ah, thanks for this. Briefly, the problem is that OS X's new "System Integrity Protection (SIP)" feature in El Capitan (OS X 10.11) does not allow one to use admin privileges to write to certain system directories, notably /usr. Currently, however, MacTeX distributions create a symbolic link "t

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Ricardo, Can you provide an example of a situation where the feature in question would be useful? I composed in raw LaTeX for 20 years but since switching pretty much full-time to LyX several years ago I have yet to find a situation that LyX (plus perhaps a little ERT

Re: Math Symbols

2015-03-04 Thread Christopher Menzel
LaTeX (and LyX) just use the standard ASCII keyboard characters for < and > and they print just fine to PDF. Are you saying they do not print properly for you? -chris Gordon Cooper March 3, 2015 at 5:54 PM Greetings. The great list of Lyx symbols has a cou

Re: Possessive author names in citations

2015-02-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
Just curious: Under what sort of scenario would this be useful? I'm asking because LyX allows you to cite individual references by date only. Hence, you can write "Knuth's" by hand and add the bib reference without the author name so that only "(1984)" prints. If that's all you're after, it see

Re: Retina support

2015-01-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
ion-pro/>) there is virtually no perception of the slight fuzziness and pixelation visible at very close range. -chris Christopher Menzel <mailto:chris.men...@gmail.com> December 26, 2014 at 5:45 PM LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt h

Retina support

2014-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk: I have a couple of questions concerning LyX on the new 5k iMac. 1. Stephan Witt had noted some time ago that Retina support was in development for LyX. Does anyone have a reasonable sense of the ETA for such support in an OS X binary? 2. Despite some screen font blurriness up close

Re: Yosemite problems...

2014-11-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
(Sorry for top-posting, but) Does everything work if you launch LyX from the command line? I think he affirmed this: "...when I launch LyX from the terminal, it can convert the [PDF] graphics and show them on the screen." This is my experience as well. -chris On 11/12/2014 07:41 PM,

Re: Yosemite problems...

2014-11-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
I've been having this problem with embedded PDFs as well since at least 2.1.1. (As with Murat, they do render successfully if I start LyX from the CL.) -chris Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Hi, I have updated by MacBook to Yosemite and LyX to the last version (2.1.2.1). This solves the problem of o

Re: Fwd: Help with Lyx

2014-11-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
Trisha Lawrence wrote: Hi Scott I've currently uninstalled Lyx from my laptop. I've noticed on the lyx-users platform a suggestion to do that as well as downloading the following link below http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Should this work? Would I still need to make any changes af

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.1.2.1 Released

2014-10-31 Thread Christopher Menzel
I did a clean network install of Mountain Lion on a 2013 iMac last night, upgraded immediately to Yosemite, and then installed MacTeX 2014 and LyX 2.1.2.1 first thing. After starting LyX from the GUI I still got the previewing bug where none of my .cls files could be found during the compile. A

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

2014-10-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.10.2014 um 17:44 schrieb Christopher Menzel: On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, "Julio Rojas" wrote: Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina is not a useless application, but a very difficult one to work with. My experience is quite

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

2014-10-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 20, 2014 7:46 AM, "Julio Rojas" > wrote: > Unfortunately, it is so. My wife has both versions and Lyx on Retina is not a useless application, but a very difficult one to work with. My experience is quite different (though of course YMMV). There is no doubt th

Re: Yosemite + LyX

2014-10-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Whoops, sorry, I was reading messages FIFO instead of LIFO. :-) I note, however, that another of Hal's problems is that LaTeX is not finding .cls files. This has to do with the version of Python running in OS X. I had that problem and fixed it taking the following steps (which I found somewhere

Re: Yosemite + LyX

2014-10-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hal Kierstead wrote: I am trying to use LyX 2.1.2 with Yosemite, but review does not work for me. I cannot even preview the help manuals. I can export them to LaTex and then compile them with LaTex. This must be some path problem, but I do not know how to deal with it. Any help would be ap

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

2014-10-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
He said around Christmas. -chris Langer, Tino wrote: Hi Stephan, many thanks for the information. You are right - I'm using a display with high resolution - so I understand the problem. Is there a approximately time schedule to adapt the current version of lyx to support Retina-Displays?

Re: lyx on Mac - blurred fonts

2014-10-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
Is there an ETA for a retina-supported version? :-) Thanks! -chris Stephan Witt wrote: Am 05.10.2014 um 21:47 schrieb Tino Langer: Hi all, I just installed lyx 2.1.2 on OSX 10.9.5, using MacTeX in background. I’m a little bit confused because the font in the editor area and also the icons

Re: g-brief template anpassen: IBAN/BIC statt Kontonummer/BLZ

2013-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
Stephan, I was able to make changes to the corresponding code for the English option in g-brief.cls without any problem. (For some reason LyX wouldn’t acknowledge the “german” option for the class even if I changed my language default to German so I wasn’t able to test exactly your desired chan

Re: Mavericks troubles

2013-10-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
th as well. beta 2 should be out soon. Other than that you might want to try exporting from the command line since that might get around thread-related issues. Best, Scott On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > LyX folk, > > I upgraded my

Mavericks troubles

2013-10-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk, I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Mavericks a couple days ago and have encountered no problems whatever except that LyX 2.1 beta 1 is now regularly crashing on a large file I’m working on, and in a rather catastrophic way, as it truncates the 390k file I’m working on down to around 150k. F

Re: Position of tilde

2013-05-13 Thread Christopher Menzel
On May 13, 2013, at 3:51 PM, PDV wrote: >> Hello all! I apologise if this has been asked to death, but is there any way >> to get a normal looking tilde? Like >> this --> ~? I want to use it instead of saying "approximately" but when I >> use the keyboard tilde (\textasciitilde) it appears at th

Re: Option key as meta (OS X) broken in 2.0.5.1?

2013-04-12 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Apr 12, 2013, at 3:46 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 12.04.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Chris Menzel : > >> Hi Stephan, thanks for the reply. I'm simply using the default emacs.bind >> file and I checked to make sure I don't have a custom .bind file lurking in >> ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0

Re: Why do YOU love LyX?

2012-02-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Feb 18, 2012 um 12:28 PM schrieb Russell D Brunelle: > ... > So, why do YOU love LyX? I like to point people here when they ask me that question. :-)

Re: Cannot block the swapping of Apple and Control keys (OS 10.6, LyX 2.0.2)

2012-01-30 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Jan 30, 2012 um 8:07 PM schrieb stiv. djobz.: > The checkbox of > "Do not swap Apple and Control keys" > in > LyX>Preferences>Editing>Keyboard/Mouse > does not work in 2.0.2. Hm, it doesn't seem to make any difference for me either, but fortunately, the Ctrl key is behaving for me as it ough

Re: Why is environment Standard undefined?

2011-12-27 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Dec 26, 2011 um 11:36 PM schrieb Steve Litt: > On Monday, December 26, 2011 11:25:13 AM you wrote: >> On Dec 26, 2011, at 6:18 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >>> LyX is my writing tool, Vim is one of my diagnostic tools for LyX >>> problems. >> >> Thanks, Steve. As you know, I'm a newcomer to Vim, but I

Re: Bibliography inside the main LaTeX file

2011-12-26 Thread Christopher Menzel
BibTeX creates a file YourFile.bbl when you run it on YourFile.tex. Just remove the command \bibliography{YourBibFile} from YourFile.tex and replace it with the contents of YourFile.bbl. Chris Menzel Am Dec 26, 2011 um 4:39 PM schrieb Paul Smith: > Dear All, > > I have just a paper accepted f

Re: Beginners questions: Where do I find class, style, layout, and template files

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Dec 8, 2011 um 2:30 PM schrieb Eric Weir: >> ...Spotlight ignores a lot of stuff that it patronizingly considers >> lower-level and/or beyond the ken of ordinary users. You need either to use >> the (very powerful and useful) unix "locate" command from within a terminal >> or a dedicated app

Re: Beginners questions: Where do I find class, style, layout, and template files

2011-12-08 Thread Christopher Menzel
Am Dec 8, 2011 um 1:02 PM schrieb Eric Weir: > On Dec 7, 2011, at 11:57 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> On 12/07/2011 10:28 AM, Eric Weir wrote: >>> >>> I thought in trying to get the formatting capabilities I want by making as >>> few changes to existing formatting documents I would study a few to

Re: Problem (?) with adjacent theorems, lemmas, etc

2011-11-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > On 18/11/11 11:33, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> LyX folk, >> >> I am attempting to list two simple lemmas, one after the other, without >> proofs or any other intervening text. LyX appears not to allo

Problem (?) with adjacent theorems, lemmas, etc

2011-11-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
LyX folk, I am attempting to list two simple lemmas, one after the other, without proofs or any other intervening text. LyX appears not to allow this. If I attempt to insert the second lemma immediately after the first, no matter what I've tried the text of the second lemma is simply pulled int

Re: Package varioref Sweave error

2011-11-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Nov 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > ... > In the SpiderOak case, they don't know your password (unless, temporarily, > you log onto their website), Spideroak (and any other such service) uses the https protocol, which encrypts all data transfers, and surely only (one-way) encrypt

Re: TeXmacs Shorthands in Lyx

2011-10-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:04 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: > On 10/24/2011 09:43 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I currently write a lot of mathematical documents in TeXmacs, mainly >>

Re: TeXmacs Shorthands in Lyx

2011-10-24 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: > Hi, > > I currently write a lot of mathematical documents in TeXmacs, mainly > because the way you can type formulas is very intuitive. > > Two basic examples for those who don't know about it : > * Begin a formula : Only the $ sign, n

Re: Add german hyphenation patterns for XeTeX - where?

2011-10-20 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > for a given document, I need to use XeTeX (OTF-font). LyX claims in the > protocol that: >> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, >> nohyphenation, ge rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, basque, >> ukenglish, usenglishmax,

Re: Creating References

2011-10-18 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On Oct 18, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >> Grab my main BibTeX bibliography here: >> >> http:/cmenzel.org/MenzelBib.org > > Yikes! Make that: http:/cmenzel.org/MenzelBib.bib *blush* Two

  1   2   >